2020 — In June 2020, the AI training data company Appen suffer…
Data compromised
Email addresses, Employers, IP addresses, Names, Passwords, Phone numbers,
Technical writeup
In June 2020, the AI training data company Appen suffered a data breach exposing the details of almost 5.9 million users which were subsequently sold online. Included in the breach were names, email addresses and passwords stored as bcrypt hashes. Some records also contained phone numbers, employers and IP addresses. The data was provided to HIBP by dehashed.com.
Root cause
Data breach